Sporting.

Semi-annual Fall Hunt of the Omaha Sportsman's Club.

The Result of One Day's Hunt.

The semi-annual fall hunt of the Omaha Sportsman's Club, long anticipated by its zealous members, is over.

This Club was organized on the 11th of March, 1863, and for the first few years the members were content with an annual hunt, but the Club was enlarged, and it has now come to be a custom withthem to turn out twice a year in pursuit of game.

For this last hunt, George T. Mills and Henry A. Homan, both youngmen, but crack shots, were chosen captains at a regular meeting of the Club. They then organized separate parties in the same manner that we used to choose sides at spelling school. The Captains tossed for first choice, and Mills won; he choose Byron Reed, in his opinion the best marksman in the Club. Captain Homan chose Mr. Kennedy, as the next best shot; and so on, until all the members were chosen. It is a rule with the Club that if a gentleman cannot make it convenient to go, the game brought in by his opponent on the other side shall not be reckoned on the strict count.

In looking over the list of members published below, it will be seen that the Club is respectable in a very eminent degree. On its roll are the names of our most valued citizens, the most enterprising of the business men, and the ablest professional gentlemen. They delight once or twice a year to exchange the cares of business for the excitement of the chase, and they find themselves none the worse for a day's hunting.

Those of the club who had decided to take part in this fall's hunt, started on Tuesday last, armed and equipped as the law directs. Some went by rail, some in teams, and the rest walked.

They scattered themselves all over the country, and on Wednesday, the day of the hunt, they made a long day of it, and were quite successful withal, which is attested by the large amount of birds that they brought in yesterday. They all report game as very plentiful, but the day was too pleasant, and birds flew very high. Nearly every hunter lost as many birds, by falling into the water where they had not time to follow and capture them, as they secured.

Messrs. Sackett, Kennedy, and Peabody hunted together near Bartlett, south of this city.

At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the sportsmen met at McAusland's gun store, and the game was counted. As each one arrived, he took his load down in the basement of the store, where it was assorted and counted by Messrs. Clopper and Sutphen.

In counting the game, small birds are the basis of reckoning; for instance, one mallard duck is equivalent to three small birds.

The following was the result of the count:

Captain Mills' Side.

George T. Mills

Byron Reed

John W. Petty

William Preston

Yankee Hathaway

J.J.L.C. Jewett

Horace C. Newman

G.H. Collins

Dr. C.H. Pinney

P.H. Kean

Frank Buckley

Alfred Donaghue

Smith Saunders

D.C. Sutphen

Dr. W. McClelland

P. Windheim

R.H. Willis

J.F. Young

E.D. Pratt

Dr. W.H.H. Sisson

71

67

69

72

52

70

43

10

9

Captain Homan's Side.

Henry A. Homan

B.E.B. Kennedy

Geo. T. Hoagland

Geo. B. Lake

Dan S. Parmalee

H.B. Sackett

R.N. Withnell

Dr. J.H. Peabody

E.B. Chandler

Albert E. Loveland

Dr. M. Fichera

H.H. Cook

John Withnell

J.Y. Clopper

E.F. Tenery

S.S. Caldwell

Dr. J.B.W. Gardiner

William Miller

E. Estabrook

John S. Collins

113

76

71

60

30

46

55

4

69

17

15

The Game.

The following is the total number of the different species of game brought in by the two parties.

Mallard duck

Gadwall duck

Widgeon duck

Scaup duck

Shoveller duck

Canvasback duck

Ruddy duck

Bufflehead duck

Greenwing teal duck

Wood duck

Hooded merganser

Hutchins goose

Canada goose

White-fronted goose

Wilson snipe

Sora rail

Golden plover

Prairie chicken

Quail

Rabbit

Fox squirrel

169

17

7

4

11

1

3

5

17

8

3

21

4

2

20

1

2

11

26

2

1

About eleven on each side went on the hunt. Some of the above named returned too late to have their game counted, and their record is therefore blank. The gross count is al follows: Captain Homan and party, 556; Captain Mills and party, 463. In favor of Captain Homan and party, 93.